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i “REVEALING” YOUR PAST m PRESENT I FUTURE I by Abbe’ Wallace I “YOUNGEST MENTALIST ON THE AMERICAN STAGE” || N H.—1 was injured a few weeks a go. do you think 1 will be successful in getting any money from it? Ana: I vision you receiving a small ras of money from the insurance Company in connection with the street car accident that I contact in your life several weeks ago. If. M.—1 really want to know what my sister’s husband tried to do to her He put something under her door. step. A ns: He is merely trying to get rid erf a hard luck spell that he has been suffering with for some time. He means no harm to anyone but simply thinks he i( roing to gain good luck by this. I am sorry to say but I be. liere he will be aadly disappointed if be puts much faith in this stunt. If. P.—A man came looking for me and said he was my uncle. He said my grandmother died and left $35. 000.00 and he said this money had to be divided among all the relatives and he said he had • home in Lincoln, Nebraska and he said he was going to give it to me. Will I get this? Ans: He it just "pulling a gag”. Your grandmother never saw $3500. He has a nice home waiting for him in Lincoln. N'cbr., at the jail house. I feel confident that you won’t want ». Lessie—I met a young man whom I would like very much to see again but something happened that we did. not get a chance to say as much as we could have. I wonder if I will ever in my life meet him again? Ans: You will meet this boy at a big dance held bere in Omaha this sum mer. I suggest that you make the most of thp meeting. L P.—I am between the devil and the deep blue sea. I have been going with a certain gentleman that I like very much, we have fallen out. -6c 1 am asking you what must I do wait or seek another boy friend. I am so choicable, I am anxious to get marr ied. Ans: Anyone that is as anxious as you are to .zet married shouldn’t be so choicy. Look around a bit, you have a treat coming to you. G. H. C.—Who was the cause of my brother’s death ? As. Your brother took his own life which proves his guilt in connection with the crime he was accused of. P. M. S.—Why is it that when I do hit the number this man tells me that he does not get it in in time? Is he trying to cheat me? Ans: No he is not trying to. He just ‘imply takes it. He gets you both ways going and coming. If he had a couple of more customers like you he would retire within a year or so. M. D.—I have trouble in my mind and a friend of mine from Florida wrote and told me what a wonderful man you was. I am going with a man and some moh^ girls want him *o go with them. He tells me he don’t care for no one but me. These girls are sport girls and he passes some time with them. Please give me a hand so I can take this man and leave with him. Ans: You have him hooked sister, now don’t let him get away from you. to make sure of landing him persuade him to leave town. The way he feels about you at the present time, it won't take much persuading. You will be pronounced man and wife in July. _ K. D. S.—What do you see that would benefit me most at the present time ? Ans: Call the people that you worked for until a year or two aigo. They are in need of a man and they will be , tickled to death to get you back a. gain. NOTE:—Your question printed free in this column. For Prviate reply send 25c and (self addressed stamped enevelope for my New Astrological Read ing and reeive by return mail my advice on three questions free. Sign your full name birthdate, and correct address. Adress Abbe’ Wallace, P. 0. Box—11, Atlanta, Georgia. [Read The... 1.-.Z3L-: , 1 "IT;■-E==] | Weekly Record ] The Omaha Guide, wishing to be of service to the Community, will in the future print all marriage licenses, births and death records as they are Tiled If you will note the accompanying records are dated back for the past two weeks. In the future they will be printed weekly Marriage License*. Issued To:— Name. Address Age Kay Stem!, 5318 So. 31st St., 24 Sarah Moore. 5402 So. 28th St.. 21 • • • Jonathon Jones, 2608 Hamilton, 21 Vivian Greene. 16294 N. 21st St., 19 • • • Carl Basse!. 2707 Caldwell St.. 21 Juanita McGaugh. 2621 Grant St.. 19 • • • George W Bryant, Osceola, la.. .over 21 Margaret Brown. 2875 Wirt, over 21 • m • Lorenzo Harvey. 19174 Clark St., 24 Lois Love. 1610 N. 28th St.. 16 • • • Z. E McGee. 3006 Ohio St., 24 Elaine L. Smith, 3027 Manderson — .. . . St.. 23 • • • Lee Curtis Blackburn, Omaha 25 Agnes Carter, 2504 Hamilton St., 24 RALEIGH MASONS FIGHT CASE IN WAKE SUPERIOR COURT RALEIGH. N C—(CNS) — The masons at a recent election get into a fist fight and John C. Becton alleges that he lost an eye. He charged George Hinton was the culprit and sued him for $5,000, Hinton retained A B Breece to de fend him. but switched to R. L. Mc Millan. A string of plaintiffs witness es, heeded by Worshipful Master F. J. McLean, testified and developed that there might be a strong self-defense ease for the defendant. His new law yer had not had time to develop, so Judge Cranmer ordered a mistrial in order that be m.gbt file amended answer. Briggs and Wert appeared as plaintiffs attorneys. .tSooli [ 0 ■Review “SENOR BUM IN THE JUNGLE” By Algo Sand (Robert M .McBride and Co.. 4 West 16th Street, New York City.) Senor Bum, in this story, weaved around actual experiences of the author, is an American white man, possessing as his first love the spirit of adventure into unknown or unex plored regions. We pick him up as “floater” around an Americal oil expedition camp in South America. In their leisGre mom ents the men discuss hand-me-down legends of the unexplored regions up the Orinoco, down the Rio Negro and on out the mighty Amazon rivers. When our hero, not yet known as Senor Bum, learns that no white man has ever traversed portions of that country, and despite the pleadings and warnings of his fellow-men, he quits the oil expedition and single handed decides to become the first white man to cross the region. Although he starts out with a full traveling equipment, purse and larder, under the assumed pretentious title of an American scientific explorer, he soon finds himself reduced to a state from whence comes his nick-name— , Senor Bum—for virtually that is what he becomes. His possessions whieh are not lost through the thievery of the natives arc carried away by the swift currents ol the aiany small rivers he is forced tc cross. The money in his possession be. comes of no value for the native know not its meaning. In short, he becomes a genuine bum in the jungles. When a white man becomes a burn he is indeed a pathetic figure in spit< of his efforts to uphold and maintak the dignity and supremacy of his race I And Senior Bum was no exception bu1 by exercising good common sense anc forgetting his vaunted supremacy h< learns to make friends with the var ious natives. Indians and Mixec Breeds—all of whom would be just ai every day Negro in America as far a: color is concerned. , During Senor Bum’s stay in th< jungle his experiences remind us of i great many books we have read of lift | in the wilderness of Africa. The sam< superstitious rituals; witch-craft voodism; cannibalism; murder, thiev ery and whatnot. After spending eight months in th< jdngles. at point of death on many ai i | START FIGHT ON POOL WHICH BARRED 2 NEGRO LADS MONDAY NEW YORK— (CNA) — Declaring that the Bronxdale Pool was “a white man’s pool,” the management of that pool last Monday barred two Negro youths from the premises. The youths, Daniel Epps, 2711 Cruger Avenue, and Elmer Ames, 2800 Brons Park East, were accompanied by two white youths. The latter were admitted with out question. The white youths de manded their money back and left the place when they found their compan ; ions barred. Through an oversigh? at the ticket office, tickets were at first sold to Epps and Ames. The assistant man. ager of the pool then rushed over, seized the tickets and barred the two youths. The pool was the scene of many sharp battles between workers and the police last Summer as indignant white and Negro workers protested the barring of Negro workers and children. The courts supported the action of the pool management, finirer and jailing several militant white and Negro workers. A few days ago a delegation of white workers from the Bronx Co operative Colony at 2800 Bronx Park East visited the pool to contract for its use this Summer. The management i offered them especially low rates, but with the provision that they must not bring Negroes along. The delegation rejected the Jim-Crow terms, demand ing the right of the Negro and white workers to associate together. They denounced the discrimination against Negroes as part of the policy of the ruling class of splitting the workers and isolating the Negro toilers for a more intensive exploitation and • op pression. The action of the delegation in re jecting the Jim-Crow proposal has been endorsed by the workers of the Co-Operative Colony and by a number of Bronx organizations. The Ronald Edw’ards Group of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, which has played a leading role in the struggle against the Bronxdale Pool Management, has taken steps to mob ilize new sections of the Negro and white workers for the struggle to smash all Jim-Crow laws and practices against the Negro people. The L. S. N. R. group will also institute legal action against the manjgement of the pool, as a supplement to the mass fight the names of Daniel Epps and Elmer Ames will be brought in the Action. The following white workers have announced their willingness to , testify against the management: Joe Epstein. Abe Eisenman, George Weiss, | David Bernstein, Sol Tobach and Israel Padalsky. F. E. A. Welsh, a member of the L. S. N. R,, was also present at the time. occasion, living on the fat of the wild erness one day and starving the next, Senor Bum eventually, through the graciousness of some Indian tribes with whom he makes friends, finds his way out to civilization and to an American Consulate where he dis covers that like the prodigal son his parents have been searching every where for him, and with money quick, ly supplied he catches the first boat home to America—and the result is his very interesting book on adventure i —Senior Bum in the Jungle. —Clifford C. Mitchell, i Supplemental Reading: The "Flash”—a new weekly pictor ial tabloid in Chicago, and the feature /sketch therein on Harry H. Pace “Scottsboro”; “All quiet in Morgan County,” and “Negro Songs of Pro test” in the May New Masses. “Superfluous People” ini the June Birth Control Review. UNION UNIVERSITY TO ADD TEACHER COURSE FOR ELE MENTARY INSTRUCTORS RICHMOND. Va. — (CNS) — The school board of this city has agreed to cooperate with Virginia Union Univer sity in working out a plan for practice teaching by students in one of the elementary schools of the city. Dr. William J. Clark, president of the University, following the receipt of a letter to that effect from the school board announced that begin, ning with the fall semester, the uni versity will offer a full course for the elementary teacher, comparable to that formerly available at the Armstrong Normal school, which has been abandoned due to economic conditions. ! Under the former arrangement, prior to the decision of city school authori i ties to discontinue normal courses, the university only maintained an advanced course for high school teach ers, who were allowed practice.teach inrz in Armstrong High school. After this they were eligible to the certifi I cate of the State board of education without taking an examination. “On the other hand,” he explained “Negro teachers of the elementary grades received their entirejniirsg in teaching and practice-teaching at ■ Armstrong Normal school. With the closing of this school as a measure of city economy, the elementary teacher would have been compelled to study outside the city, which, in view of pre sent conditions, would be impossble in i the majorty of cases.” , To meet this emergency, Virginia > Union University made the city school t board the offer to give a complete ele mentary teacher’s course, provided students were allowed to do practice teaching in one of *he elementary , schools. This the bca:d agreed to at i its recent meeting. FAMOUS PAINTING AT WORLD’S FAIR The famous “Man With a Wine Glass” by Die^o Velasquez, Spanish painter (1599-1660), which is exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in the great loan collecton assembled for A Century of Progress—the Chicago World’s Fair. The canvas was the gift of Edward Drummond Libbey to the Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, and was lent to A Century of Progress collec tion for the period of the Fair. Sport Forecast (EDITOR’S NOTE):—This column will be faund on this page in every issue for those interested in Athletics ' I If you will note by the title the writ- j er will attempt to forecast the result of the current sporting events that | take place from time to time. When there is a lull in sporting e vents, this column will make observa tions of the sporting world One of the most discussed ques tions on the mind^ of the leading coaches and followers of track and field meets h; What do these Color ed boys have that they can go on smashing record after record without interruption from the leading white athletes of the world? I have heard this question argued pro and con ever since Eddie Tolan and Ralph Metcalfe electrified the sport world last July at the Olympic games. The theory has been advanc- [ ed that Negroes have a knack to mim. ic anything they see or hear about, that their whole life is devoted to copying what others have done be cause Howard Drew was the first Negro sprinter of prominence they argued that all colored lads take to sorinting as a national heritage and therefore concentrate upon the line of track work to the exclusion of the middle distance and longer races and therefore, with so much attention giv en by one group to one particular branch of track there is no wmnder that their best should be the most successful Others claim that the sprints do more than any other form of racing demand perfect timing and rhythm. Since there has never been a group of people that have had instinctive rhythm as the Negro, the thundering stomp of the sprinter and the thump, thump, thump of the racers feet a gainst the cinders furnishes a per fect cadence of ragtime tune for them to use to coordinate mind and muscle I have often wondered if these peo ple have ever stopped to consider that our Drews. Tolans, and Metcalfes that have been and are, and our O wens, Phillips and Skinners to come, might train just a little harder, set their minds more assidiously to the task of winning, knowing that there cannot be a race that is too close or they will come out second. In this I think these people who wonder will find that the very thing that makes them w-onder is that, that makes these boys succeed—racial prejudice. Golfers of the Club Swastika, O maha’s local colored club, are sharp ening up their game for the coming central States’ Tournament to be held August 6th and 7th at the Dundee Golf CourSe in Omaha. The Omahans feel rather confident and cocky about their sweep of the tournament held in Kansas City last month when “Gab by” Watson stroked his way to the championship class A and Bill Davis cltfhned up the Class B Division. How ever, they should consider that the tournament there was match play and some of the best players were elim inated because of the nine hole mat ches. The Central States is a medal play competition and calls for thirty six holes of good, steady golf. Such stars as Charley Howard, the defending champlon from Des Mtoinesj Iowa, “Spiders” Rummons of Kansas City and Sam Shepard of St. Louis will be gunning for revenge. I think that it will be a fight between these three and Penny Murray. John Pegg and Jess Hutten of the local club, with “Gabby” Watson, Hodges and McClain and Russel of Kansas City, jumping in to win if anyone of these slip.* Davis, Galloway and Hanger, who are some of the most improved play, ers of the local club are playing too goo<^ at this time to be considered Class B players but if either one of them get into that class, they will each have a better than even chance to win. Others that might get into Class B and be plenty dangerous are: Crawford, whose game gets better each time he plays, Harvey Avant, Marshall, Emmet Avant, Tillman and Miller of Kansas City. The following is a letter received from Charles P. Howrard, President of the Central States Golf Association, relative to the Golf Tournament: The annual Central States Golf As. sociation tournament will be held Sunday and Monday, August 6 and 7, at Omaha. Nebraska, over the Dun dee Golf Course. The present mem bers of the Association are: Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri; Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. In addition individ uals from other cities not having golf organizations may enter. The Association tournament last year was held at Des Monies, Iowa and was won by Charles P. Howard of that city. The tournament is an annual Seventy.tw'o hole affair. Thir. ty-six holes will be played Sunday, August 6, and thirty.six, Monday August 7, The high one-half of the qualifiers of the first eighteen holes comprise the championship flight and the second half go into the second flight. Stiff competition this year is expected from Dr. S. G. Robinson of St. Louis, Lem Russell, Dr. Eugene Rummons and Fred H. Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri. Send entries to Charles P. Howard, 515 Mulberry Streets, Des Moines, Iowa. See you next week— Art McCaw. THE UNCROWNED CHAMPION by HARRY LEWIS Many stories of the invincible speed matchless power, and devasting punch of the new heavyweight Champion, Primo Camera, are being told. It is true that Primo is a big man pos sessiong bulk enough alone to make a formidable foe to any fighter, with in the hempen strands, but it must also be considered from other angles. Camera is the greatest drawing eard in the fight game today. He is young and willing. These qualit ies are gold to the Madison Square Garden directors, and with Camera as Champion, can they not readily coin it into money? The true heavyweight champion of the world is a Negro, namely Larry Gaines, weight 182. He has met and defeated every fighter of note in Europe. Among his victims, within the past six months is Prime Cam era. And according to press reports he scored a decisive and easy victory. In my opinion, Primo Camera is only champion because of hi8 drawing power and size, and not fighting ab ility. WORLD’S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION by C. C. GALLOWAY Primo Carnera will be the world’s Heavyweight Champion until he re tires. Anyone that saw the fight be tween Bearcat Wright and Primo at League park, could readily see that no average sized citizen would ever have a chance at the championship belt as long as Primo Carnera is considered in the heavyweight class. Primo was awkward in this fight, and without any scientific ability, but the force and arm reach in Primo is found in few men. His weight is not in ex cessive flesh. He is naturally a big boned and muscle built man. Bearcat, heretofore had always been able to protect his face with his gloved hands. Primo Carnera, after a few jabs at Bearcat’s face through his hands, discovered that Bearcat’s scientific protection was just a little too much for him to open a way to eet a clear cut swing or uppercut at Bearcat’s face without first hitting Bearcat's fists. So Carnera made up his mind that he would two.glove Bearcat to a finish, and he mauled away at Bearcat’s face and head, by stiking Beacat’s hands, when he would throw them up to protect his face. Pretty soon Bearcat became as light as a feather, and as senseless as a baby. Over the ropes he went. Bearcat was helped back into the ring j and anyone could see that he was a whipped man at this point. Primo Carnera is a suppr.man. In size and strength, and muscle, and when the scientific trainers get through with him, he will be in a class to himself, as a heavyweight like the world has never known before. I predict that no fighter will be able to stand in front of him for five rounds. 1*0,000 WITNESS CRICKET SKILL uE WEST INDIANS LONDON, Eng.—The British West Indies cricket team here Monday be. fore 20.000 fans Lord’s in the test match with the pick of England’s best stars. The Islanders sensational play. | ing collapsed permitting their un. broken string of victories to become endangered at the end of the first en counter. | HEFLIN RANTS AGAINST NINE NEGRO BOYS ..MONTGOMERY, Ala—Expressing i a cruder lynch policy as against the more subtle lynch methods being fol lowed by Judge James E. Horton, for mer U. S. Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama has sent the following wire to Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight who is seeking to electrocute the nine innocent Scottsboro boy3: “I share with you the keen disap pointment and resentment that you feel over the strange and annoving action of Judge Horton in the Scotts boro rape cases, and I will be glad to assist you free of charge in having Judge Horton relieved from further consideration of these cases and in having another judge appointed to try the Scottsboro Negroes. This dallying with the Scottsboro rapists is a hu miliating insult to the white race in Alabama and the very worst thing that could happen to law-abiding Ne i groes of this state. It is putting wick ed thoughts in the minds of lawless Negro men and greatly increasing the danger to the white women of Ala bama. “Let justice be done and done speed ily so there will be no more bribing of witnesses and brazen interferences with court trials for rape in Ala bama." Earlier, in a statement to the press, Knight, whose father wrote the pre vailing opinion of the Alabama Su preme Court upholding the original Scottsboro frame-up declared: “The prosecution of the Scottsboro cases will not be abated.” Heflin Prosecuted Croppers. Heflin, known to have been for years a leader of te Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, was chief prosecutor in the recent Tallapoosa trials which result, ed in five Negro sharecroppers being railroaded to prison for terms up to 12 years. I PROTESTS THEE LYNCHING OF TWO WHITE MEN NEW YORK—A protest against th« i lynching of two white men by a mob at Huntsville, Tenn., June 8, and a re. I quest that the lynchers be caught and punished was sent to Gov. Hill Ma. j Allister by Roy Wilkins, assistant se cretary of the N. A. WE ARE NOT GETTING ODRS We often boast about the great advancement we have made in the last three quarters of a century; our progress in literature, science, music, medicine and other arts and professions. However, a little research will serve to show that our advancement over this period can not be compared on par with other groups over a similar span of time. Take the prosperous immigrants for an example. • Our greatest hinderance seems to grow out of the fact that we do not inspire concentrated effort in projects which would serve to improve the economic status of our communities. Omaha’s colored citizenry represents something like 12,000 people. Observe any town with a 12,000 population and find what amount of these persons are holding well paying and responsible positions. Com pare their progressiveness with your own community and note how far we arei behind in this struggle of human ex istence. In many instances it takes the wages of from three to four of our people to pay a week’s salary to out siders who come into our section through the force of out side mass pressure and fill positions and jobs that could and should be held by our own young men and women for whom we have sacrificed to educate. A regrettable illustration of this is to be found in our neighborhood theatre; closed now five days a week due in part to the fact that our people resent the constant paying out of their hard earned quarters and dimes, where they cannot secure desirable employment. Much undeserved criticism has been heaped upon the manage ment of this theatre. The criticism is not merited be cause the management is powerless to hire colored help in the operating room, due to pressure brought on by an organization of workers who seemingly have always en deavored to keep the colored worker in the lowest class, possible, even if they have to come into his own neighbor hood and rob him of his inherent right to accomplish their aim. We have ample information from the manage ment that they would be only too glad to hire colored mo tion picture machine operators if the fire prevention law, which from indicaions is an instrument in part to protect a certain class of labor, was not used as an excuse to pre vent persons who are undesirable to them, from securing operator’s license. A group of skeptical citizens, desiring to test the j elasticity of the law governing license to operators, sel ected two colored youths who have been trained in mach inery, electricity and motion pictures since their school days, to take the examination. The results and elasticity was as expected; an unnecessary detailed and complicat ed group of tasks were set up for them. In spite of this they came within a few points of passing the test. Then, believing that maybe they were not so up-to-date, the young men spent four weeks of intense study under the supervision of a licensed operator in preparation for an other examination. Those in power evidently felt that this was the time to discourage the youths once for all, so they gave them even lower grades then at first. These two young men are determined to carry the fight against apparent discrimination to the last ditch. They have been successful in securing an appeal from the board of the city council. This is only one step toward attaining better representation in jobs CREATED BY OURSELVES, yet we all should get into the spirit of the movement as the path has no ending and offers unlimited opportunities for those youths of ours whom we educate and are educating, that they might take their rightful place among men in this city and nation.